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Holding On To Love After It’s Gone - Healthy Relationship

Building a healthy relationship is one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks in this life. If you have ever been in an unhealthy relationship, you know the cycle of fear, anger, self-doubt and anguish that it can cause. Many people have had so many bad relationships that they do not even know what a healthy relationship is. In desperation, they will turn to all kinds of trendy methods, from weekend getaways to unlicensed amateur online marriage counselors to try to fix their romantic problems. But if there is any secret to a healthy relationship, it has to come from inside, and not from one, but from both partners.

Whether you have been friends with your partner for years, or have recently met through an internet dating service, the fact is that at some point, the honeymoon will pass and some of the fire will leave. It may not be until after marriage, but once the fire leaves the love, you will be both tested to see whether or not you can keep holding on to a healthy relationship. This is no easy task. Having taught at a wide variety of healthy relationship seminars, I can tell you that the techniques are numerous and that the results vary greatly from couple to couple. I have seen some couples who can build a healthy relationship simply through using some simple tips to good communication. Other people will go through years of couples therapy only to find out that their relationship is doomed. If they are healthy people, they will be able to let it go at this point. Love and respect for others starts with self love and self respect. There is no virtue in holding on to love long after it is gone.

Really, the best advice I can give you if you are working on maintaining a healthy relationship is to always remain gentle and as honest as possible. This might seem obvious to the point of absurdity, but it is really more difficult than you might think. There is never a time when shouting is more useful than speaking calmly. There is never a point where is is better to say deeply hurtful things than to put things in a matter which is more friendly and supportive. Really, the most important thing to remember is that healthy relationships are all about applying common sense to a part of life which it is hard to apply to - love and romance.

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Be Prepared For Advanced Life Support

There are many things that people don’t like to think about, but there comes a time to do so. Some forget to make a will when they have children, and if something were to happen to them, their children might not end up where the parents would have liked them to be. Some don’t take care of it because they don’t want to think it can happen, but everyone has to assume that something might happen. It is important to protect those you love, and it is also important to protect yourself. You also have to think about what would happen if you were seriously hurt, but you did not die. What are your wishes about advanced life support?

There are many times when the issue of advanced life support is on the news. This is usually because someone did not put their wishes in writing and the family is fighting over what to do next. This also happens when someone has a long illness, but they did not foresee that they might not be able to speak for themselves if something went terribly wrong. Having your wishes about advanced life support known and in writing is always good idea for anyone.

Some don’t want any type of advanced life support if they were to come close to dying. This often happens after someone has had a long illness and they just don’t want to have their life saved if they are in a certain condition. This is understandable, though many in the family won’t understand and will try to fight that person’s advanced life support wishes. If it is in writing, there is not much the family can do to interfere. They may try to fight it but it probably won’t do them much good.

Those who have wishes about advanced life support and other things that might be related should talk with a lawyer about having those wishes made legal. This can be done with organ donation and other related things that no one wants to talk about, but should consider. Not only should this information be recorded by a lawyer, it should also be told to family so they are aware of what the final wishes are. That can speed some things up in the end, if that is the way a person wants it to be. Death and sickness are hard enough without family members fighting about things that should have already been decided.

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